The Philippines treats gender with much more impartiality. Tagalog is so gender neutral there are no pronouns for him and her. No specific noun for husband and wife or brother and sister. Women have always been regarded more as equal and homosexuality is accepted as normal. But on the same hand, there is no self delusion that men in women’s bodies should compete as equals in the sports arena and there really is physical differences between men and women.

You could say because their social evolution, in this regards, began sooner, they’ve worked to an altruistic plane where differences are accepted but not everyone is commensurate. There are pegs of every shape, and even though all are accepted as equal, there’s also the realization they all don’t fit in every, um, hole.

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